Someone bid £900 for a supermarket basket ‘used by Justin Bieber’ but it turned out to be fake

Back in early October Justin Bieber was spotted in a supermarket in Amsterdam, just casually buying some beer.

His appearance in a local branch of Albert Heijn led to check-out counter number seven becoming a shrine for his fans and one opportunistic person to attempt to sell the one and only basket used by JBiebs as he wandered around the store.

The ad has now luckily been taken offline but before it was it was reported that several bids had already put the items up to 1050 euros (£924) after a starting bid of just 50 euros.

Speaking to photo agency CEN, the store manager Dominique Hakkenberg confirmed that the basket being offered is ‘a fake as the real basket is still at the supermarket’.

(Picture: CEN)

She also revealed that Justin and his pal, Dutch DJ Martin Garrix ‘had no protection, nothing with him’ and admitted that her shop is now a shrine, adding: ‘It seems that everybody wants to stand on the place where Justin stood before.

‘At the beer department, and at check-out counter seven which is seen as some kind of shrine.’

The shop cashier Thirsa Lange added: ‘A colleague of mine said that Justin was in our shop. I did not believe it as I would not expect him to be in the Netherlands. When I saw him in my queue I almost could not hold back my laugh.

‘I scanned the groceries of the other customers but in my head all I could think about was Justin.’

It’s not the first time someone has tried to auction off an item used the incredibly popular Canadian singer – Amy Potter, the landlady of an Essex pub netted herself £66,000 after putting a used milk glass up on eBay after the singer stayed at The Kings Oak Hotel and had the drink during a break from touring.